Long before written language, storytelling was how humans evolved to survive. John Bucher is the Creative Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and doctor of Mythology.

His new book, The Storytelling Almanac, was written for anyone that’s had a curiosity about the underlying psychology of story and wants to deepen their understanding and practical application of communicating through the framework of storytelling.

Story is incredibly human in nature, and this episode runs the full gamut of the human experience. We cover everything from emerging technologies, cryptocurrency, the tumultuous nature of our current era woven into our personal stories about the journeys that brought us to sit down today.

Pick up his newest book, The Storytelling Almanac, and enjoy the show!

https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Almanac-Weekly-Telling-Better/dp/1639010769

*moderate adult language and themes

Joy Horvath is an experienced game developer and professor of game development that now works Unity Technologies as one of their first instructional designers. If you take any of Unity’s online courses, you’ll find her touch everywhere, including games that she developed specifically for students to practice coding skills. She’s worked at Unity for four years and has watched the explosion of indie game development from the inside.

We talk about her journey from costume design to game design, how to take advantage of opportunity when it strikes, and the importance of the people you meet along your journey.

She’s helping lead the charge with Unity’s recent decision to open its learning platform for free to the public, and Joy and I are both incredibly passionate about a future where quality learning material is freely available online for every curious human.

If you’ve ever been curious about game development, go to unity.com/learn.

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Students, Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, Lawyers, Architects and more from across the world, united in a shared dream of human colonization of Mars and beyond. Nexus Aurora is an online collaborative community where the technology required for this bold mission is brought to life volunteer members.

You'll hear from two of the core members of Nexus Aurora that currently oversee high level management of the organization. The community is experiencing a time of transformative growth as their technologies have moved from ideation to prototyping, and opportunities for funding lie ahead. 

How does a volunteer group of over 1,000 people get project done? What happens when someone has an idea for a project or technology? How do you legally protect the intellectual property created within the group? 

The conversation takes a surprising turn into soft skills and the critical need for them on teams. 

If you're a space enthusiast, or just have a curious itch about how a group like this could possibly operate, visit their website at https://nexusaurora.org/ 

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Yu-kai is an author, educator, and founder of the Octalysis Group where he consults with some of the biggest companies and brands on gamification through the lens of the Octalysis framework that analyzes eight core drives of human motivation.

Eight Core Drives of the Octalysis Framework:

Learn more about gamification from Yu-Kai Chou: https://octalysisprime.com/

In this episode of the Curious*itch Podcast, you'll learn how to build a life that intrinsically motivates you. He spells out all the steps, from birth to grave, that prepares you for pivotal moments that can accelerate and change the trajectory of your life towards the future you want to create, and the need for building the right community of support to reach big goals. 

We talk about strategies for managing the inevitable failures that happen in life, and how to maintain an idealist-realist mindset. 

This is an episode you'll come back to time and time again, or hopefully decide to take a step of curiosity inspired action and learn from the master himself at https://octalysisprime.com/

Why the Curious*itch? What weird twists of fate started this journey, and what will you discover by following your own path of curiosity?

Five minutes to learn if you're in the right place, stick around for the deeper dive with Evelyn Bainbridge, host of the Curious*itch Podcast